Thursday, July 17, 2014

Simple Slow Plan for Palestinian Self Determination by Wiley Foxes

Okay here are my assumptions (see U.S. Bombs Puerto Rico to Kill Suspected Terrorists - Really?):

  1. Israel is never, ever going to give Palestinians a country, witness last 65 years.
  2. Present conditions are equivalent to Apartheid where Palestinians have no rights, no freedoms.
  3. Israel is a superpower relative to the Palestinians. 
  4. Israel kills 100 times more civilians than the Palestinians do. 
  5. Israel perpetuates hatred by successfully killing Palestinians. 
  6. Palestinians have little outlets for their hatred, hence largely ineffective toy missiles, tunnels, etc.
  7. Israel has a middle class; Palestinians are dirt poor.
  8. Israel has a powerful ally, the U.S.; the Palestinians are shit out of luck. 
  9. Israel can cut off power, water and food from Gaza whenever they chose, like now.  Sewage, water treatment, power plants have been destroyed by Israel.
  10. A million Palestinians are trapped in a very small land mass of 139 square miles (1/10 the size of Rhode Island).  There is no place to run away from Israeli bombing, etc.
  11. The entire world agrees Israel is the greater wrong; we the U.S. use our position in the United Nations to keep any actions from being taken against Israel.
So, Plan A created in 1948 to give the Palestinians their own country is never going to happen.  Israel and the U.S. is never going to make it happen.  Period. So Apartheid conditions will continue forever. 

There is one other way for Palestinians to obtain self determination.  Again, Israel is not going to let it happen, but the U.S. might actually have the values to push a Plan B:
  • Only randomly kill 10 Palestinians for each Israeli killed; this would be called a tempered response.
  • Offer Palestinians a path to full citizenship in Israel (yes, inside the territory of Israel). Yes, similar to black in South Africa.
  • Gradually absorb Palestinians in Israel as being EQUALS despite their race and religion.
  • Invest into Gaza and West Bank to raise living standards.
  • Provide education in Israeli schools of all Palestinians.  
  • Rebuild Infrasture in Palestinian lands destroyed by Israeli.
  • Eventually tear down the walls between the Israel prisons (Gaza) and Israel. Yes, similar to Berlin. 

I would expect the offer to let Palestinians become Israeli citizens would be accepted by Palestinians with family members.  Parents might be willing to do this to protect their children, don't you think?  Parents that took this offer could have some hope of having a normal life raising and caring for their children instead of being at the mercy of Israel, who has none, and Hamas who have a pridefully impossible agenda. 


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